People refusing to see the sarcasm or satire of the OP need to:
A. Reset their meters.
B. Admit they are being intentionally thick.
In other words if someone is saying that obama was joking when he made those comments and
then on the other hand saying that Rush or whoever on the right was being serious is being
intellectually dishonest and should therefore have their opinion dismissed out of hand.
Of course this is my option....... which is correct...... and I believe we can all agree on that.
I don't think it's a matter of refusing to see it. I think it's a question of simply not knowing whether to take it at face value or not in the absence of any other contextual clues. I got reamed for missing the sarcasm in a single sentence post. No purple, no smilies, and not an opinion that I haven't seen posted here seriously. How the heck was I supposed to know he was being sarcastic? Really? I have eyes in the back of my head, but my mind reading skills are still being developed and not even out of their infancy for internet conversations. Geez. Give a girl a break.